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1. " Those girls had tried to act like Yakhanian sophisticates way out there in the ranch lands on the fringe of habitation
2. " In fact Jalloo was a good portion of the variety he was supposed to indulge in and she considered that an important fringe benefit to this job
3. where brick meets cold earth by a fringe of grass
4. beyond the fringe of an eyelid,
5. She wore a white wide-brimmed hat and stood on the fringe of the gathering examining the scene until it became clear she was looking for a place to sit, and somewhere she would not have to fraternize too much with the villagers
6. She was talking of theories that were considered somewhat fringe
7. After a few minutes great-aunt Edith looked up, brushing Annie’s fringe away from her eyes, and said, “Of course, its all different now
8. Ken held her head in his arms and gently wiped her hot and sweaty fringe away from her fevered forehead, stroking her hair to try and soothe the poor young thing as she lay like a rag doll in his lap
9. surroundings on the fringe of the lovely, picturesque Cornish
10. It would be a lot easier to find mortals there than billions of miles out on the fringe of Sol’s space
11. ’ Chrissie said, desperation beginning to fringe her tones
12. He had regular business to conduct that detained him in some of those offices and many of the ladies with private workspace delayed him for the skills of his hands, one fringe benefit of life at the Kassikan he still allowed himself to indulge in
13. He is pressed down and back into the damp, dewy fringe running along the farm lane
14. From now on he was going to use the story that he came from out on the desert fringe, he would use Kartha’s cabin as the model of his home
15. Two with the fringe, still attached and the third, was what some may call a buckboard, or at least she thought that was its purpose
16. He’d even gone so far as to buy a leather jacket with the fringe across his chest, to impress the rugged old hands, Jim had arranged to help
17. The buggies with the fringe on top had been converted into rather handsome sleighs
18. In casual conversation with people who didn't know him he gave his life story as 'Grew up with fundamentalist parents way out on the desert fringe of Wescarp and left it as soon as I could and came here with Desa and lived happily ever after'
19. She never actually believed he was from anywhere more exotic than the outer fringe of Wescarp, which was what he claimed when he wasn't full of yaag
20. top, with an untidy fringe of hair beneath, and the
21. Two hundred years ago it had stood proud, among lush gardens on the fringe of this old merchant city
22. Instead, he felt like a freak on the fringe of society
23. Our loss was considerably over a thousand, before the lines for attack were formed through the chaparral on the fringe of the woods
24. Per Capita Income, however much it has increased among (native) segments of our population, has been barely able to keep pace with the rapid rise in immigration whose recent emigrants are living on the (economic) fringe in unprecedented numbers
25. Timid and/or expedient politicians pandering to off the wall, lunatic fringe groups, whose members should have their collective heads examined, have lent legitimacy to peevish, ill-tempered designs in exchange for political party loyalty
26. But there is no credible evidence, as those on the fringe claim, that the Davidians were deliberately murdered
27. Instead, he transformed himself, by his own ineptitude, into a political caricature of himself reduced to spending his remaining political capital on ceremonial issues while making obscene concessions to Big Business whose inexhaustible demand for cheap(er) labor at the expense of (native) low income wage earners, many of whom are younger African Americans living on the fringe, are morally and providentially unconscionable on every conceivable level
28. A youth in a luminescent green shirt with trim of black fringe and patent leather shoes with taps grabbed her hand and gave her lessons in the middle of San José's busiest street
29. By using violence which potentially could harm or kill, such fringe types could alienate a public which is otherwise very sympathetic to environmentalism
30. There they sat, clustered under the embroidered canopy with fringe balls all tailored in gold, silver and purple threads
31. She nimbly stepped around those vacant-eyed wretches who wandered the fringe as she led her family toward and up the trail out of the clearing that now seemed overrun with desperate, nearly hopeless humanity
32. He, Abram, had been allowed to sit at the fringe of the meeting, for he had learned at an early age to be quiet in the presence of his elders
33. After all, even if I had understood it as a warning, what could I have done about it, except to make myself look like just another fringe conspiracy theorist, and a rather wild one at that?
34. I can tell she’s getting older in the entries, her language becoming more refined as time separates her from the fringe where she once lived, her reactions becoming more moderate
35. “She came from the fringe, and they brought her here, and she lived here for a couple years, then went into the city to stop the Erudite from killing the Divergent
36. He’s an important man in the fringe
37. “I’ll let my friends from the fringe in through the underground tunnel,” Nita says
38. You can see the fringe for yourself,” he says
39. They must have reminded her of this place, of the fringe
40. By the time we get back to the truck, Jack and Violet are setting up a surveillance camera that wasn’t stolen by people in the fringe
41. “My neighbor is a history expert, he came from the fringe,” I say as I search my pockets for my keys
42. There are still GD rebels in the fringe who believe that another war is the only way to get the change we want
43. The tiny spring shimmered and dimpled under its fringe of ferns
44. And into the fringe
45. The enemy soldiers were dressed like ordinary mountain tribe peasants except for a sort of helmet often with a red wool fringe decoration; more of the wool fringe was tied below their knees and around their ankles
46. His clothes were leather, probably deerskin, but he wore a cloak (made from cedar bark and wool) that was painted with yellow, black and white designs, symbols and faces, and had a long wool fringe hanging from the bottom
47. oily fringe behind his ear
48. good-looking, his hair cut fashionably with a long fringe nearly covering his eyes
49. The parted fringe of his silver hair clung to his cheeks as the
50. strands of his fringe from his face as he shook his head in
1. Oleanders fringed the woods and sent back a dense sweet twittering of countless birds
2. Lying naked at its center was a man, his face covered by a scruffy gray fringed beard
3. Betsey looked pitifully at the old hat fringed with icicles, like
4. Each float had on its back either live music or enormous speakers and trailing behind, hundreds danced to hip swaying Latin beats encouraged by young people in colorfully fringed costumes, shaking maracas to the beat
5. Brendan was bemused to contemplate the faded and fringed, blue bib-type overalls, the raggedy short-sleeved shirt, perhaps white once-upon-a-time, a straw hat, and almost unbelievably, there was a slingshot hanging out of the back pocket!
6. The swanky bar that fringed Hoxton Square, it was a meeting place for city workers and local gangsters out for a good time
7. Gradually, they approached a small island fringed with stunted bushes and with
8. The late afternoon sun rapidly disappeared into a huge, growing, fuzzy fringed, buzzing, swirling, brown mass
9. From the yacht, the land is a passing delight of forested hills and mountains, rocky headlands, hidden beaches and coves, palm fringed shores, exotic old cities overlooked by ruined chateaus, beaches thronging with scantily clad, bronzed young bodies… freedom inaccessible to those trapped aboard the throbbing prison of a ship
10. Whatever the cause, by five o'clock twenty relaxed and increasingly frisky strangers of both sexes between the ages of thirty and fifty in a bizarre assortment of “twenties” style beaded, fringed, low waisted skimpy frocks, dinner suits and tails were sipping cocktails in the drawing room, served, like Katherine Mansfield’s somewhat more literary crowd, by a nude butler and, unlike Mansfield, two maids in nothing but frilly aprons
11. It wasn"t until I got to the gate that I realised the smoke was at my place! The house and studio, hidden from the road by a melaleuca-timbered rise, nestle into a north-facing amphitheatre fringed by steep rainforested hills
12. Scattered islands of twisted metal, fragments of walls and roofs, bits of cars, telephone and electricity poles and thousands of unidentifiable lumps, reared through a stinking mess of sand and mud - a swampy plain fringed by stagnant pools and sluggish turbid streams
13. Terrific convulsions shook the earth; the nights were lurid with spouting volcanoes that fringed the dark horizons with red pillars
14. She saw them bunch together on the sands, suspicious, weapons ready, while several scattered out through the trees that fringed the beach
15. There was no perturbation in the wide eyes that scanned the green walls which fringed the trail
16. Something was moving through the deep bushes that fringed the trail—something that neither walked nor flew, but seemed to glide like a serpent
17. He was pushing through the thick bushes that fringed the bank when Conan pulled him back
18. The southern horizon was fringed with flame by night, and in the day straggling pillars of smoke drifted upward; in the cities and plains to the south men were dying, thrones were toppling and castles going up in flames
19. another row of wartime houses that fringed the old wealthy part of
20. A great blue heron flapped over the bush fringed shore and stuck his stilt-like legs down as if feeling for the ground, spied the silent man in the pirogue and tried to reverse direction
21. Antarctica, which began the Eocene fringed with a warm
22. chief, blew noisily, tucked the fringed linen into
23. metres in diameter, with fringed petals and a yellow
24. White sand that’s fringed with dunes stretches to eyes’ reach
25. The lakes were fringed with rushes; the forests came down to their edges; his own garden ended in a little path through a lilac hedge that took you down between the rye to the rushes and the water and the first great pines
26. Either side was fringed with what appeared to be dense jungle which extended to the foot of both ranges
27. The road was fringed on both sides by thick scrub which extended a good distance to the foot of hills which rose perhaps two hundred meters
28. a long curving pristine beach fringed with coconut palms and rich vegetated forests
29. Goldenrod and asters fringed the mossy walls
30. Among these exhibits I'll mention, just for the record: an elegant royal hammer shell from the Indian Ocean, whose evenly spaced white spots stood out sharply against a base of red and brown; an imperial spiny oyster, brightly colored, bristling with thorns, a specimen rare to European museums, whose value I estimated at ₣20,000; a common hammer shell from the seas near Queensland, very hard to come by; exotic cockles from Senegal, fragile white bivalve shells that a single breath could pop like a soap bubble; several varieties of watering–pot shell from Java, a sort of limestone tube fringed with leafy folds and much fought over by collectors; a whole series of top–shell snails—greenish yellow ones fished up from American seas, others colored reddish brown that patronize the waters off Queensland, the former coming from the Gulf of Mexico and notable for their overlapping shells, the latter some sun–carrier shells found in the southernmost seas, finally and rarest of all, the magnificent spurred–star shell from New Zealand; then some wonderful peppery–furrow shells; several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams; the trellis wentletrap snail from Tranquebar on India's eastern shore; a marbled turban snail gleaming with mother–of–pearl; green
31. One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: "If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy
32. concealed them from the headland, and the margin of the lake was fringed for some distance with dense and overhanging bushes
33. His companion told him to steal to the edge of the wood, which, as usual, was fringed with a thicket, and wait his coming, for he wished to examine certain suspicious signs a little on one side
34. As he approached, nothing was audible but the rattling of the light silver ornaments that loaded his arms and neck, and the tinkling of the little bells that fringed his deerskin moccasins
35. But when the sun was seen climbing above the tops of that mountain, against whose bosom the Delawares had constructed their encampment, most were seated; and as his bright rays darted from behind the outline of trees that fringed the eminence, they fell upon as grave, as attentive, and as deeply interested a multitude, as was probably ever before lighted by his morning beams
36. Even in the unsteady light from Caris’s candles, there was no doubt about the identity of the dead man: the head was fringed with distinctively ash-blond hair
37. For a space they hung there, brushed by the purple loose-strife that fringed the bank; then the clear imperious summons that marched hand-in-hand with the intoxicating melody imposed its will on Mole, and mechanically he bent to his oars again
38. In the osiers which fringed the bank he spied a swallow sitting
39. I watched the course of the little stream as it came in from the moor, and my fancy followed it to the top of the glen, where it must issue from an icy fountain fringed with cool ferns and mosses
40. At the time when the racers had to go to the pavilion to receive the prizes, and all attention was directed to that point, Vronsky’s elder brother, Alexander, a colonel with heavy fringed epaulets, came up to him
41. The office in which he stood had been the dining room of one of the town’s more affluent farmers, and its windows looked past the glistening icicles, some thick as Sahndyrs’ wrist, which fringed the overhanging roof and ran across the aptly named Snow Dragon Square
42. A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the branches and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled
43. in his red, gaping mouth, fringed with monstrous fangs
44. It was bowl-shaped and at the bottom, some hundreds of yards from where we lay, were pools of green-scummed, stagnant water, fringed with bullrushes
45. Her flushed face, fringed with soft curling hair under her night cap, was radiant with joy and courage
46. It was full of girls, girls who floated in butterfly bright dresses, hooped out enormously, lace pantalets peeping from beneath; round little white lace shawls carelessly hanging from arms; fans spangled and painted, fans of swan’s-shoulders bare, and faintest traces of soft little bosoms showing above lace flounces; down and peacock feathers, dangling at wrists by tiny velvet ribbons; girls with masses of golden curls about their necks and fringed gold earbobs that tossed and danced with their dancing curls
47. We walked round the house; under the limes Julia paused and idly snapped off one of the long shoots, last year's growth, that fringed their boles, and stripped it as she walked, making a switch, as children do, but with petulant movements that were not a child's, snatching nervously at the leaves and crumbling them between her fingers; she began peeling the bark, scratching it with her nails
48. Four hundred years ago, Indian tribes had moved among the black trees that fringed the roadway
49. Meanwhile the business of the meeting was despatched, and fringed off into eager discussion among various groups concerning this affair of Bulstrode—and Lydgate
50. GARY GOODFRIEND WORE a fringed buckskin jacket, distressed jeans, and a plaid shirt
1. Beyond the confines of earth-time, way out beyond the fringes of the universe
2. Beyond the confines of earth-time, way out beyond the fringes of the universe where dark matter falls forever, Smith thought about nothing, taking slow but gigantic steps towards origin, and in thinking, even on a universal scale, Smith began to acquire the very first trappings of personality
3. She parked the probe in the upper branches of a tree far above where humans could climb, and where it could catch the fringes of a beam from one small globe far down the hill
4. Waving up to the palm fringes of coffee shade
5. and in the dying time when the fringes
6. Reeds line the fringes of the land and, here and there, I see large boat houses
7. But I never heard any mention of either name in connection with the farthest fringes of shonggot, it wasn’t an issue they’d mentioned
8. Today he passes his time watching at the fringes of the world, learning of all the oddities and the unexplained
9. fringes of the wood behind and had begun their descent
10. True to her word, the first test of the Huntress's fancy new cloak was tested at the fringes of the Waghtnin Embedded Cluster, their initial destination on this leg
11. The fringes of the flames could be seen spitting up into the morning air
12. Brokin glanced over his shoulder, marvelling at how such a large body of badgers had managed to move into the fringes of Brockenhurst Forest without disturbing the local wildlife
13. Passing through the fringes of Limon brought a smile to her lips, remembering the several occasions she had been there to share lunch with Gordon Edward
14. They proceeded into the forest, until they reached the fringes of Tamworthia
15. He was surprised when they instead encountered the outer fringes of the reed marshes that bordered the river
16. That Spirit/Essence that had so long teased around the fringes of his five physical senses, could only be more fully contemplated by the sixth sense, that construct labeled mind
17. Those who are afraid to extend themselves beyond their present grasp fearing to reach toward the fringes of the unknown, and by extrapolation move that which is unknown toward the knowable, would stall us all behind that fear
18. But still, many of the earlier representations lingered on in the fringes of man’s awareness
19. On the fringes of the town, there were grass houses and the hide tents, as well as a few of each being put together
20. Since then, reincarnation has been relegated to the fringes of Western society; a concept
21. with white interlaced around the outer fringes
22. 38 Speak to the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
23. 12 You shall make you fringes on the four quarters of your vesture, wherewith you cover yourself
24. They exert pressure on the fringes of campaigns,
25. She also felt we had nothing to lose, living as we were at a subsistence level on the fringes of New York City under less than desirable conditions
26. We finally located a two-bedroom, first-floor corner apartment in Westchester County on the fringes of Rye, NY, and my routine commuting into the City began
27. He warned that both “the radical fringes of youthful society and their counterparts” on the extreme right are endangering America’s free universities
28. ranged the fringes on each side
29. perceived safety, the darkness pressing against its fringes
30. questions about Pluto, Charon, and the outer fringes of our solar
31. What appears as yet more fuel to Comcast current fires could actually be the calm before a bigger storm brewing on the fringes of convergence
32. ensure that more people in the outer fringes will experience some hardship in the coming year,‖
33. Then, there were the brigands who haunted the fringes off the trail and lived off the infrequent travelers who had to pass through to reach the other side of Khafra’s border
34. had played at the fringes of his mind for some time now; the idea that these epi-
35. On the fringes of
36. The Federation established a permanent freight marshaling facility and frontier outpost to service traffic outbound to the fringes of the galaxy in much the same manner as St
37. We would like to spend the next year escorting convoys at the fringes of the system
38. In fact, only those who are on the fringes of the business opportunity market take
39. Fringes of panic closed around him
40. So of course, the story is (kind of) true to life, and has a certain duo of characters on the "fringes
41. This city was on the fringes of the region where the main population had gathered over the centuries, and the cities were getting to be much larger
42. And from this dough we see the formation of a product that can at best describe the simple fringes of functional reality
43. For example, if you generally have guests in the backyard, it is wise to plant flowers in borders along the fringes of your property
44. From the scrap-built slums of the fringes to the sky-reaching buildings of midtown and the venerable brick buildings and monuments of old town
45. sanctuary of the rich rock field and was now on course for the fringes of the
46. At first they terrorized only the outer fringes of the known Asteroid belt
47. “I was pretty safe,” she said, “because I had only been on the fringes of this business, and because I’d never met Vaughan or Benbow
48. Moreover, owing to their lack of modern education or personal moderation, their existence ‘here’ confines them to the economic fringes, even in developed societies in which they happen to live
49. Even otherwise, the bottom-line of the alien religious appeal to the populace of Hindustan is that Islam and the Christianity could only impinge upon the fringes of its polity, that too when the rulers belonged to the respective religious dispensations
50. Thus, it is no wonder that the Christian salvation had become the natural selection for the Hindu fringes, if only seduced with the right inducements from the Catholic Church
1. In the valleys fringing the nearby hills snow had already come to stay
2. The aircraft stayed well below the peaks, and flew along a valley floor over thick forests of fir fringing a meandering river
3. the iridescent fringing, but not as intensified as the needles of the pine trees
4. iridescent fringing part of the backyard trees, it was only because they were in-between my inner
5. and formed fringing reefs about the islands
6. We did not hurry, but lingered over each beauty, resting on little sunny plateaus high up on the very edge of the cliffs, where, sitting on the hot sweet grass, we saw the colour of the sea shine through the colour of the fringing scabious--a divine meeting of colours often to be seen along the Rügen coast in July; or, in the deep shade at the bottom of a ravine, we rested on the moss by water trickling down over slimy green stones to the sea which looked, from those dark places, like a great wall of light
7. Black uninteresting hummocks of land appeared, dotting the duskiness of water and clouds in the Eastern board: tops of islands fringing the German shore
8. In still other localities, such as Réunion Island and the island of Mauritius, they build fringing reefs, high, straight walls next to which the ocean's depth is considerable
9. That was a bitter, bitter thought, that last one, because unlike the batteries fringing the Kyznetzov Narrows, Yu-kwau’s waterfront artillery had been completely overhauled
10. Others nestle under trees fringing a river or a lake